File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Page by Beth Rengers Talken, 12 October 1998.  Link change or update: 12 Oct 1998

Obituary for Louis Henry Duwelius (1858-1912)
No. 039 - Uncited clippings from the "Neva Murphy Hubbard Collection" of Beth Rengers Talken, 1998.

Louis Henry DUWELIUS was born in Cincinatti, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1858, being at the time of his death, which occurred in Briscoe, Oct. 7, 1912, 53 years 11 months and 7 days. He was graduated from Miami Medical college at Cincinatti, 1887, and practiced in the city hospital for three years. He came from there to Lincoln county, locating at Briscoe, where he followed his profession for nearly nineteen years, ministering to the suffering with tenderness and care as were shown by the large concourse of sorrowing men, women and children who followed his body to its last resting place, and covered the grave with the choicest flowers. On the 30th day of May, 1904, he led Miss Emma GLADNEY to the marriage altar and was united to her in marriage by the writer. To this union were born one child August 18, 1908, it dying in infancy. He leaves the wife with several brothers and sisters to mourn his departure. Dr. DUWELIUS was reared in the German Lutheran faith and lived to his last day a chaste life. Funeral services were conducted by the writer at his late home in Briscoe Tuesday, after which his remains were laid in the cemetery near Auburn. May the Holy Spirit comfort the bereaved. -J.S. EAMES

Note regarding clippings from the "Neva Murphy Hubbard Collection":  Neva Murphy Hubbard (1886-1971) lived all of her life in Lincoln County, MO.  She collected a large file of clippings of Lincoln County residents. The majority of the clippings were without citation. Beth Rengers Talken, beneficiary of the collection, has transcribed them for inclusion in our Lincoln County Heritage Records. 

File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Page by Beth Rengers Talken, 12 October 1998.  Link change or update: 12 Oct 1998

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